The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-09-08

A car load Of salt Just received by Ii.
Thomson, and will be sold low for cash. |
If one class is to be benefited by the rail- |
ro.d, how can you keep others from shar- |
ing the same benefits? Ii It helps one man |
it must help all, just in proportion as their |
condition and circumstances in life will |
admit of it. What will be good for your
neighbor must be good for you.
Mr.. Geo s. Prichard Director of the
Henderson Musical Chorus requests US to
say to the children of the town that he de-
sires those that wish to join the chill
drens chorus to meet him at the AssOcia
TONS Hall over J. A. Stallings' store at 10
o'clock Saturday. Parents will please
bear this in mind. The childrens chorus
will be kept up during the winter.
| A negro who goes under several aliases,
John Moore being one them, was arrested
| and put in Jail few days ago for stealing
a lot of turkeys belonging to Mr.. Thes. l.
| Harris last week. Since he has been in Jail
| Moore has been identified as the thief who
recently stole Capt. Richards hog, also. 1t
is we'll that the community has to this ex-
: tcIlJ got Vi SuCh
| While in Raleigh on Monday the " Man
! on the Outside" who is not writing any
this week, spent a short time very pleas
! antly in the Office of the Ne,os- Obseruer and
/ also with Brother Utley in the sanctum of
the Euening Visitor. He also had the
pleasure of seeing our friend and former
! townsman j. E. Pogue, Esq, who is in
Raleigh what he was in Henderson, live
and pushing tobacco manufacturer, whose
brands are so popular all over the South.
Wilson Hicks one of our intelligent and
respectable cOlored citizens, and constant
reader of the GOLD LEAF, was in to see us
| this week to ascertain his standing on our
subscription books and to report the condi
| ton of crops in the neighborhoOd of Brook
ston, where he lives. He says everybody
is meeting with good success curing to-
bacco and saving fodder, while cotton is
opening nicely. Wilson has a good crop
this year and will continue to read the
GOLD LEAF.
Mr.. K. l.. Daingerfeld had a worthless
cur belonging to some neighbOr to kill four
sheep for him few days ago. Two others
were badly wounded. Is there no way to
get rid of the dog nuisance in this country?
What encouragement has person to i'm
port valuable animals of this kind into our
community, Gas Col. Burgwyn has just
dOne) and attempt to raise sheep? The
risk is too great. Let the dog be relegated
to the back ground so that the sheep may
come to the front.
Should the Durham railroad not come to
Henderson, our town would in all prob
ability be damaged to the extent of double
che amount of the subscription asked in
single year. Does it require any abstruse
mathematical calculation to determine
how this can be when competing markets
are sapping the very life blood of our bust
ness from uS-rival towns building up at
our expense? The most obtuse mind must
readily see what the result would be. Then
let us avert such calamity.
Mr. S. j Currin moved his family to
Granville county last week and will make
his home there in future. He has valu-
able plantation about half mile from
Sassafras Fork on the line of the new rail-
road from Clarksville to Oxford, and goes
back to take charge of that. We regret to
lose such good man and valuable citizen
as Mr.. Curtin, but wish him all possible
success where he has gone. The GOLD
LEAF will go to him each week freighted
with the news of HendersOn-a reminder
of the many friends he leaves behind.
Our Ringwood correspondent &c. E. M"
writes us that the Nash county tobacco
farmers have been very successful in cur
ing the weed this season. Mr.. Thos. v.
Avent one of the largest tobacco growers
in the county, has finished. He says he
has some of the finest tobacco ever made
in old Nash, and the Henderson market
will have something to be proud of when
friend Avent's crop is offered for sale. The
cotton crop will not be what it promised a
short while back; the weed is good, but not
we'll fruited. Corn is nothing like as good
az expected.
The last issue of the Biblical Recorder
contains an interesting letter from Rev. NJ.
V. McDuffie, written from Saratoga
Springs, New York, Aug. 18th. His many
friends here will be pleased to learn of
his we'll doing in his new home and field of
labor, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He
says there have been fifty additions to his
church by baptism since he assumed the
pastorate and not the slightest friction of
any kind in the church work, or relation of
pastor and people. Brother McDuffie will
begin the work of his second year there
with an increase of $500 in his salary. max
ing it 81 500.
Ashby Watkins has engaged the services
, of w. B. SmthsOn of Mecklenburg county,
Va, to attend to his repairing department
LosT.-A hair chain with gold catch
, fastenings, jet cross with gold tips at
tached, was lost on the street somewhere
between Methodist church and Mr.. w. F.
Rowland's residence Sunday. A suitable
reward will be paid the finder by leaving
same at this Office or at Mr.. Rowland's.
ART STUDIo-Miss Whitfield, art teacher
at the College, has opened a studio down
town at Newell's art gallery where she
will give lessons to ladies who wish tc
! take art. Miss Whitfield is a very superior
e artist and not only possesses the genius to
! display her rare talent upon canvass OF
g paper, but has the happy faculty of being
Q able to impart it to others as we'll. As
n both artist and teacher she has been emf
r nently successful and we are sure there are
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